Pausing a batch file for amount of time

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Possible Duplicates    Sleeping in a DOS batch file   How to wait in a batch script       I have a program that is kicked off with a batch file   The first module takes 10 seconds or so to initialize  and I want a way to  sleep  for 15 seconds before the second module is called  but I don t want it to require the user to hit a key like  pause  seems to require   So  this is what I mean   echo  PATH   pause 10  echo  PATH    In this example  I want there to be 10 seconds in between the echos   Is this possible   I ve seen some examples using  ping 1 1 1 1  but it doesn t seem to work all the time correctly

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ping -n 11 -w 1000 127 0 0 1  gt  nul   Update  Beginner s mistake  Ping doesn t wait 1000 nbsp ms before or after an request  but inbetween requests  So to wait 10 seconds  you ll have to do 11 pings to have 10  gaps  of a second inbetween

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If choice is available  use this   choice  C X  T 10  D X  gt  nul   where  T 10 is the number of seconds to delay  Note the syntax can vary depending on your Windows version  so use CHOICE    to be sure

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